To say I didnt want to...

Bit of background.. My aunt (mums younger sister) lives abroad with her husband and after years (20ish) of ttc and quite a lot of IVF they found that after 2 mc she was unable to carry a baby so now that they are mid 40's they have resigned themselves sadly to never being anyones biological parent. I say it like this because just before they emigrated they took me, dh and dc's to florida for a farewell holiday and sat me down at the end of it and told me that they had always thought of me as their non bio daughter.. Its complicated but they have always acted more like my mum and dad than my own parents so of course I felt the same

Anyway, my sisters messaged me to ask whether I would put some money toward ordering flowers to be sent from my aunts angel babies. The plan she had was not to tell her, just have them turn up out of the blue..

I said no thank you. I really think that she would have found today hard enough and although I can see where the thought was coming from I just didn't think it was a good idea.

Cue LOTS of foot stomping and now I am in the dog house for peeing on their bonfire! AIBU to just want to send a quiet message to my aunt thanking her for being so wonderful and telling her I am thinking of her rather than what they had in mind?!?

Your sister's idea obviously comes from a good place but at best it is misguided and at worst downright macabre. If anyone had sent me flowers from my dead babies I would have gone crazy and probably thought someone was having a go at me in some way. We do remember our children but we do so in a very private way - just DH and I - even our DCs who are here with us remain uninvolved.

YANBU OP. Unlike Cooroo DH and I do miss our baby we miscarried, and one of the most hurtful things about the process was people treating it like it was just a missed opportunity ("you're both young, plenty more time" etc) not an actual loss of a loved one. But we remember him in our own way and although occasionally my DM (who understands and also grieved for the loss of her first grandbaby) will mention him or give us a keepsake with his name on, it would be creepy in the extreme to receive something from him.

I agree. I also think it is insensitive and upsetting. I had a miscarriage before I had DD. I would hate the thought of someone sending me flowers from a failed embryo. It happened in the past. I don't need or want to be reminded of it.

Could you gently let your sisters know that this could backfire and really upset your aunt - hope they don't go ahead with this for your aunt's sake though you obviously have no idea how she would view it. A message/flowers or something to her for being your favourite aunt or second mum etc would be much more appropriate.

I completely agree, in fact I did laugh at them when they quite literally stuck their noses in the air and insisted it would have been a lovely thing to do. I do love them but sometimes could happily throttle them.

I just wanted to say in reply to Cooroos response (which was completely fair enough btw, whatever gets you through it imo) that for my aunt it wasn't just a non viable pregnancy, it was a great loss of not only the pregnancy but the dreams she had resting on it and the life that (knowing my aunt as I do) she would have imagined and built around the child and then the horrible decision of closing a door which she never wanted to close when they realised that they just hadn't started IVF young enough and then feeling incomplete and unworthy as a woman ever since. To be frank, she has trouble walking through a supermarket without getting upset, all she sees (still) are women with their babies and although it has been 3 years now and she has become a nurse in that time (the other thing she always wanted) I still think its as raw for her from how she relates it to me.

DH & I lost our DD1 to stillbirth last year and then I had a subsequent MC in September. I say this not for sympathy, but so you know where I am coming from.

If someone had seen fit to send me "flowers from my angel babies" on mothers day, I would have probably hunted them down and shoved the flowers up their arse and it wouldn't have been pretty. Far from appreciating it, it would have been hideously upsetting and served as a vicious reminder that DH & I had lost our children.

You did EXACTLY the right thing. It's a shame your siblings are not as sensitive as you.